MarketWatch Article Says Picking the Right Financial Adviser is the Most Crucial Retirement Decision – but Is It?
Every few weeks or so here at AgingOptions, we come across articles that promise to reveal the True Secrets of Retirement Success. This one, which we just found a few weeks ago at MarketWatch, is no exception. According to MarketWatch contributor Mark Hulbert, the single...
Do You Need a Retirement Planner or Financial Planner? Rajiv Says it’s a Distinction without a Difference!
Typically, as we scan the web for articles to feature here on the AgingOptions Blog, we look for ones that reflect our general philosophy about retirement planning. We gravitate toward articles that emphasize retirement planning as a holistic endeavor, where all the key...
Be Careful: Those Free Online Retirement Calculators Might be Wrong!
It seems that many people approaching retirement are in desperate of need good advice, but don’t like paying for it. So they turn to free tools and resources that promise to do the job of retirement planning. Unfortunately, those free retirement planning tools available...
Is your financial advisor scuttling your investment gains
A 2012 study by Cerulli Associates found that 60 percent of investors either did not know how their advisors got paid or thought that the service they offered was free. In fact, there are at least six ways a financial advisor will charge you fees. They are:
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